The Sea (n.) is a living (and almost personal) power, with a will and purpose of its own, always subtle, sometime sportive, sometimes malevolent, mocking, challenging and defying the human insects that dare to contend with its mighty mysterious forces.
The Sea (n.) is a perfidious environment which can never be fully trusted, for even its playfulness is deadly... sooner or later it will test everyone who ventures upon it.
The Sea (n.) is where the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker than anywhere else into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.
The Sea (n.) is absent of generosity. No display of manly qualities (courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness) has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
The Sea (n.) is an archetrope, an all-encompassing overarching figure that mirrors all the processes of nature, all life and death, and the human intercourse with those processes.
The Sea (n.) is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion, a profound fellowship whereby its very forces, with only a slight change in might, are friendly today and dangerous tomorrow.
The Sea (n.) has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
The Sea (n.) is God's place. The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
The Sea (n.) betrays men, entirely indifferent of them. It plays with men till their hearts are broken, and wears stout ships to death.
The Sea (n.) is the ocean of insignificance, and in its blackness and darkness man has no relevance.
The Sea (n.) is the particular possession of the british, the real nature which forced the advanced social development and individual 'inborn courage' of a race which lives upon an island moored like a ship in the sea.
The Sea (n.) is where man is challenged and where he finds out if he is made of 'the right stuff'.
The Sea (n.) is never changing and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.
The Sea (n.) is faithful to no race after the manner of the kindly earth; unlike th land, it receives no impress from valor and toil and sell-sacrifice, recognizing no finality of dominion.